Bhavish Aggarwal Quotes

I'm excited about the opportunities with mobile phones and being able to receive information on the go and relevant to what I'm doing at that moment in time.

It's very clear to users, more clear than in other apps, that Foursquare is an app for search and discovery, and we're very good at delivering you a social map that will show you friends' faces on the map and things that you might like.

Asking what I'd do without Loopt is almost like asking what I would do if I didn't have a smartphone because the feature set has become the norm for me.

The best thing about the iPhone is this that tells me where I am all the time. There's never a need to feel lost anymore.

'Moldova: Yes or No?' That's a great app, and we actually used the geo-locator on your phone, so if you are in Moldova, it will say 'Yes, you're in Moldova.' I'm so excited. People need that. That's the whole point. The whole reason you buy a $500 phone is to see if you are... in Moldova. Or not.

Foursquare makes maps special. We take maps that are blank and put dots on them to help you figure out what to do.

Do I think every culture will embrace location technology? Yes.

A key feature of the digital age is that technology changes incessantly to sate user demands

We're an industry obsessed with the storytelling side of things, the content. And then we got obsessed with the canvas. Is it going to be on television? Is it print? And now the canvas is mobile. But what we really need to think about is the context. The context is where and when the person is consuming it - location, time of day.

Our ubiquitous mobile access has made time and location important data points in how businesses can now be built and managed.

I'm more user-experience and technology-minded. James is good at knowing what the user is going to buy, and the creative world he's buying them into.

The songs always tell you something, but always for different reasons.

If a whole bunch of users want a specific feature, and we think that feature is pretty cool, too, that that's just what we'll do.

On mobile, knowing where your friends are at any time is actually a pretty important part of your mobile experience.

Figuring out how to scale the very human art of personalization is difficult, but I believe that it is also the key to building a lasting connection with customers for the long term.

In general, it's best if you're building something that you yourself need.

Everything I write, I believe instinctively, is to some extent collage. Meaning, ultimately, is a matter of adjacent data.

When everything goes right a mobile is a piece of poetry that dances with the joy of life and surprise!

you can make mean anything.

As designers, we are the interface. Trying to make things understandable. That requires involving oneself with what's going on in the world. One must understand what people are, what they're up to, what they care about, how they feel.

You are not designing for yourself, and shouldn't be. Most people using the Web don't understand (most of) what makes it work and don't want to. Design for those people. There are many more of them than you.

The old computing was about what computers could do; the new computing is about what users can do. Successful technologies are those that are in harmony with users' needs. They must support relationships and activities that enrich the users' experiences.

Software sucks because users demand it to.

Let's face it, the Internet was designed for the PC. The Internet is not designed for the iPhone. That's why they've got 75,000 applications - they're all trying to make the Internet look decent on the iPhone.

Gamification is as important as social and mobile.*